]]>Comment on Opus 1: Scherzo in F-sharp Minor (1919) by Ciaran Parkerhttps://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/opus-1-scherzo-in-f-sharp-minor-1919/#comment-2889
Wed, 24 May 2017 14:10:37 +0000http://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-2889Now there is the recently released recording of the op 1 Scherzo and the other orchestral works of the composer’s teens. This features the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg conducted by Gustavo Gimeno. This has been issued on the PentaTone label. The Scherzi and Theme and Variations are sandwiched between the much recorded First Symphony and the lesser known Five Fragments which anticipate the music language of the Fourth Symphony but suffered a related long silence.
]]>Comment on Opus 1: Scherzo in F-sharp Minor (1919) by Ciaran Parkerhttps://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/opus-1-scherzo-in-f-sharp-minor-1919/#comment-2887
Wed, 24 May 2017 13:46:35 +0000http://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-2887As far as I know, the recording also contains interpretations of ops. 3 and 7. There may be other pieces of Shostakovich. I have never been able to procure this for anything less than a king’s ransom.
]]>Comment on Opus 1: Scherzo in F-sharp Minor (1919) by Barbara L. Wollmanhttps://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/opus-1-scherzo-in-f-sharp-minor-1919/#comment-2863
Sat, 20 May 2017 14:26:20 +0000http://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-2863Please tell me what else is on that CD — it comes with no information other than title of Op. 1 and orchestra/conductor.
]]>Comment on Opus 33: The Counterplan (1933; excerpts) by P Lunahttps://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/opus-33-the-counterplan-1933-excerpts/#comment-2433
Sat, 18 Jun 2016 13:43:32 +0000http://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-2433When I was in college, I took a music appreciation class and in a lesson we were told about a piece of music by either Shostakovich or Prokofiev that became very popular and was later made fun of by one or the other composer. Is “Song of the Counterplan”, this song? If not does anyone know of this story?
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Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:28:54 +0000http://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/?p=597#comment-2175[…] this interlude, Shostakovich quotes some phrases from his Opus 46 setting of a Pushkin Song called Rebirth, a work that was not published or performed until much […]
]]>Comment on Opus 6: Suite in F-Sharp Minor for Two Pianos (1922) by Susan Kraybillhttps://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/opus-6-suite-in-f-sharp-minor-for-two-pianos-1922/#comment-1935
Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:34:15 +0000http://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/?p=88#comment-1935I’m trying to locate the sheet music and have had no luck. Can you help?
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Sun, 17 Aug 2014 05:49:18 +0000http://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/?p=597#comment-1456I couldn’t find recordings of these pieces anywhere else, I’m spending a fun night researching all I can about the 5th symphony and this was a great read! Thanks!
]]>Comment on Opus 43: Symphony No. 4 (1936) by Charles F. Howardhttps://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/opus-43-symphony-no-4-1936/#comment-362
Wed, 07 May 2014 01:16:05 +0000http://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/?p=570#comment-362After some forty years of listening repeatedly to Shostakovich’s 4th symphony, it remains my single favorite piece of music of any kind. I do not agree with the announcer of a live performance of it by the Cleveland Orchestra, who stepped in seconds after the last stroke of the celesta in the coda, and claimed, “There is no light at the end of this tunnel.”
In fact, I feel this symphony, and the coda in particular, encompass an apotheotic transcendence over the forces that seek to conquer us.
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Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:16:55 +0000http://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-254Reblogged this on tonymckenna2013's Blog.
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